Main Ingredient Spinning Around: The Singles 1967-1975 CD

The Main Ingredient will always be one of Soul music's most esteemed vocal groups. Between 1969 and 1975 they chalked up 14 US R&B/Soul chart hits, many of which went Top 10 or higher and 10 of which also crossed over to the Pop charts. Although several of these also brushed the UK Pop charts of the day, the group has never been too well represented on CD. All that changes with the release of the Spinning Around, a Kent compilation that covers the group's first 10 years on RCA Victor and includes all the important hits and flips (and the occasional flop) from 1967-1976 - including their first two singles for the label as the Insiders. Their lengthy hit list shows that the MI had real staying power. They survived the premature death (from leukemia) of their first distinctive lead singer, Donald McPherson, to come back stronger and even more successfully with a new front man, Cuba Gooding Sr.

1. I'm Better Off Without You - the Insiders 2. If You Had a Heart - the Insiders 3. I'm Just a Man - the Insiders 4. I Was Born to Lose You 5. Brotherly Love 6. The Girl I Left Behind 7. You've Been My Inspiration 8. I'm So Proud 9. Spinning Around (I Must Be Falling in Love) 10. Magic Shoes 11. Black Seeds Keep on Growing 12. I'm Leaving This Time 13. Everybody Plays the Fool 14. You've Got to Take It (If You Want It) 15. You Can Call Me Rover 16. Girl Blue 17. Just Don't Want to Be Lonely 18. Happiness Is Just Around the Bend 19. California My Way 20. Rolling Down a Mountainside 21. The Good Old Days (Do You Remember) 22. Shame on the World